Tag: cryptocurrencies

Japanese FinTech investment stats in Q1-Q3 2023: • Japanese FinTech deal activity reached 21 deals in Q1-Q3 2023, a 9% drop from the same period...

In today's digital age, cryptocurrencies are securely housed across the globe in various types of wallets. Whether through software or hardware, custodial or non-custodial, each wallet type offers unique benefits and potential drawbacks.

Cata Labs, a company building an open-source protocol to provide liquidity between modular blockchains, has secured $4.2m in seed funding.

The UK government has unveiled proposals to put cryptoassets into the same regulatory regime as traditional financial services.

Finterest, a crypto lending protocol built to support native Bitcoin borrowing and lending, has landed $1.5m in seed funding.

The Clearing House has released a research paper that analyses the legal authority and policy considerations for banks’ engagement in stablecoin-related activities.

The European Union has come one step closer to making crypto regulation a reality after it passed the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) bill.

Moon Mortgage, a cryptocurrency lending platform, has raised $3.5m in a seed financing round headed by CoinFund and Cadenza Ventures.

The Reserve Bank of Australia will collaborate with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre on a project exploring use cases for a CBDC in Australia.

The Bank of Thailand has said that it is starting a pilot study of a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).